Great graphics - stereotyped roles and sub-par acting

Rating: 5/10 (10 October 2013)

I was certainly impressed with the animated Kaijus and Jägers, and sound effects worked well. However the roles were stereotyped almost to the extreme, especially with the scientists - you got the typical duo of the "cool" and"geeky" scientist, unfortunately overplayed and caricatured. Same goes for the pilots of the Jägers - most of them anyway.
Which brings me to what I think is a second flaw of this movie, the eagerness to please the audience across the world trying to find characters that everyone could potentially relate to. Which is why I guess they chose to have people from every large country represented; the abandoned Japanese girl, the American hero, the hardcore Russians, the versatile Chinese and the ranger Australians with heavy accent! It gets a bit ridiculous - especially when you notice the "iron curtain" music when the Russians are presented - too much and you stop believing this is actual how a professional set of trained military personal would behave.